[HN Gopher] TrustTunnel: AdGuard VPN protocol goes open-source
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TrustTunnel: AdGuard VPN protocol goes open-source
Author : kumrayu
Score : 33 points
Date : 2026-01-21 17:21 UTC (5 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (adguard-vpn.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (adguard-vpn.com)
| sillyfluke wrote:
| It would be also nice if they could hold their implicit promise
| of having the AdGuard extension working on Safari iOS, it's
| broken for me even when I reinstal it. Anyone else have the same
| problem?
| ameshkov wrote:
| This is not a common issue tbh. What sometimes may happen is
| that after an iOS update the content blockers in Safari becomes
| corrupted and the only thing that fixes it is not just a
| reinstall, but uninstall + reboot + reinstall after that. If
| even this doesn't help please contact me at "am at
| adguard.com", I will try to help.
| sillyfluke wrote:
| Thanks for the suggestion! I'll definitely try the uninstall-
| reboot-reinstall flow. I was about to switch browsers on all
| the elderly devices.
| zx8080 wrote:
| I'm surprised that the browser extension to block ads has a
| proprietary vpn-like protocol. WTF?
| ameshkov wrote:
| One interesting thing I've noticed is that AdGuard means
| different things in different parts of the world. In some
| places, people know us primarily as an ad blocker, in others
| we're best known for our DNS service and in some regions
| AdGuard is associated almost exclusively with our VPN. The
| reality is that AdGuard makes several different products, not
| just one.
| jabroni_salad wrote:
| One of my first experiences with adguard was using it to block
| ads on an unrooted phone. It pipes your connection through a
| local vpn to do it.
| ameshkov wrote:
| Hi, I'm one of the people working on this.
|
| One clarification that may not be obvious: open-sourcing this
| isn't primarily about signaling or auditability. If that were the
| goal, a standalone protocol spec or a minimal reference repo
| would have been enough.
|
| Instead, we're deliberately shipping full client and server
| implementations because the end goal is for this to become an
| independent, vendor-neutral project, not something tied to
| AdGuard.
|
| We want it to be usable by any VPN or proxy stack and, over time,
| to serve as a common baseline for stealthy transports -- similar
| to the role xray/vless play today.
|
| Happy to answer questions or clarify design choices.
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